Overtourism

The excessive growth of visitors leading to overcrowding in areas where residents suffer the consequences of temporary and seasonal tourism peaks, which have enforced permanent changes to their lifestyles, access to amenities and general well-being

A situation when either local people or the tourists feel that the place is overvisited and it is changing its character

1,6 million residents, attracts circa 32 million foreign

50,000 citizens, attracts around 25 to 30 million foreign visitors per year

1,4 million residents, attracts circa 50 million foreign visitors

Watch your attitude, don't do something you wouldn't do in your city

Skip Airbnb homes

Search out regional alternatives

Visit in the shoulder season

Be environmentally friendly

Support The Local Community With Your Time And Money

The cost of living is increasing every day

Foreigners rent apartments

There isn't enough flats for locals and they are super expensive

It is pricing residents out of the property market

Locals are moving away

Young people cannot afford to buy or rent an apartment

The useful shops (Butchers, dressmakers etc) leaves the city (f.e Venice)

They are replaced by souvenir shops

Losing locals and habitants (f.e Venice)

The destination loses its character, identity and authenticity

In given destinations tourists forget about their behaviour

Inhabitants can't sleep at night in thetourist neighbourhoods

They come there to do everything they can't do in their home

Noise levels and improper trash disposal

Turismo de borrachera (Drunk tourism)

Barcelona, Budapest, Paris etc.

Local markets are targeted

They have to change and compete the needs of the tourists, instead of the locals

They serve juices and refreshments, instead of fresh food etc

Tourists mainly go there to take pictures, not to buy things

F.e Barcelona

Tourists cause dramatic changes

Harm on the environment

F.e authorities had to close the Maya Beach because of the harm tourists caused

Huge rubbish pits (f.e in Gili Trawangan)

Natural habitat of animals disappears

Local amenities and infrastructure are put under enormous strain

Large cruises in city harbours

They disturb the aesthetic harmony of the city

Cruise pollution

Consequences: Protests and touristphobia

Government has to accept the responsibility of management

There are radical and less radical solutions

Demarketing

Destinations focus on attracting fewer, high-spending and low impact tourists, rather than large groups

VERY risky

Develop sustainability accounting practices.

Measuring the benefits and costs

Define the carrying capacity

Limit the allowed number of tourist

Reducing demand in peak periods

Seek to spread tourist arrivals over wider periods of time

Limiting transportation options

Better marketing and education of the tourists

Organizations which deal with the issue

Assembly of neighborhoods for sustainable tourism (abts)

They are against overtourism and its negative impacts

Discover the City app and City Card

sends users notifications warning when an attraction is busier than normal and suggesting alternatives

displays live feed showing the queue at the most popular places

encourage visitors to plan their trip for later in the day

Make cruises dock outside of the city and ban cruises over 55000 tons